Anglu Farrugia, a contender for the post of deputy leader (parliamentary affairs) of the Labour Party, said today that he had handed the police a second report on irregularities during voting at the general election.

Dr Farrugia had alleged shortly after the March 8 general election that irregularities had been committed, with, among other things, people being made to sell their voting documents.

He said at a press conference today that he had now backed those allegations with a second report to the police and would be preparing a third. He said his second report included declarations by people who were threatened to vote PN, including one who was warned she would otherwise lose her job. The police commissioner, he said, also had some 50 pictures taken by mobile phones by people made to vote PN.

Dr Farrugia said arrangements had also been made, through the social housing points system, for 200 people to be given a residence days before the election.

He said he would also be submitting his reports to the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) so that it could demand an explanation from the Maltese government on these irregularities.

The government, Dr Farrugia insisted, should have requested the presence of international observers at the election.